People's Will (parliamentary group)

People's Will (Ukrainian: Воля народу), formerly known as Sovereign European Ukraine (Ukrainian: Соборна європейська Україна), is a Ukrainian parliamentary faction in its national parliament Verkhovna Rada.

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The faction Sovereign European Ukraine was founded on 27 February 2014.[2] It was founded by MP Ihor Yeremeyev who had till then had not been a member of any faction.[3] The group included 35 MPs.[2] Most of them had been, like Yeremeyev, unaffiliated.[1][3] According to Yeremeyev not wanting a ministerial post had been one of the proviso to join the faction when it was established.[4]

The parliamentary group was revived after the 2014 parliamentary elections in Ukraine by Yeremeyev; but was renamed "People's Will".[7] The new leader of the parliamentary group was again Yeremeyev.[8][7] Its initial strength was 20 MPs.[9] Late October 2016 the group counted 19 MPs.[10]